The brainchild of former Botticellis founding member Alexi Glickman, Sandy's takes its name from his post-surfing habit of tracking bits of the beach into friends' cars and gives breezy psych-pop a twist with open-tuned guitars. Recruiting members of Botticellis, Apollo Sunshine, and Sonny & the Sunsets, the project's debut album, Fourth Dementia, appeared in 2014. By their third album, 2021's Magic Mind, Glickman had expanded personnel and shifted into lusher, trippier arrangements and a higher-fidelity recording approach.
Along with his time in the Botticellis -- whose 2008...